finished reading Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
As an audiobook, it's a short listen. It was interesting enough for me to finish it in just three batches of mildly unfocused attention. There's a bit of history, a bit of experts voicing opinions, a bit of well thought puns and wordplays, and as always a bit off Michael Pollan's bullshit.
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Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
GoodreadsPollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was first discovered in a small part of East Africa and within a century became an addiction affecting most of the human species. Caffeine, it turns out, has changed the course of human history - won and lost wars, changed politics, dominated economies. What's more, the author shows that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it. The science of how the drug has evolved to addict us is no less fascinating.